Jazzablanca: Jazz and Class Converge in Morocco
The recent international jazz festival in Casablanca was a triumph of musical and cultural diversity, yet such events largely remain open only to the Moroccan elite.
Read Moreby Tom Pollitt | Dec 11, 2022
The recent international jazz festival in Casablanca was a triumph of musical and cultural diversity, yet such events largely remain open only to the Moroccan elite.
Read Moreby Tom Pollitt | Nov 19, 2022
After more than five years of renovation, North Africa’s most sublime ancient place of learning has been restored to its former glory. And it has been well worth the wait.
Read Moreby Tom Pollitt | May 10, 2022
The UK government’s proposal to remove newly arrived asylum seekers to Rwanda represents a new kind of low in Europe’s callous treatment of refugees and stirs the ghosts of Br…
Read Moreby Tom Pollitt | Apr 6, 2022
Fatima Zamba, a Moroccan spokesperson for the Global Assembly – the first international citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis – spoke to Inside Arabia about the role of dem…
Read Moreby Tom Pollitt | Jan 22, 2022
Yzza Slaoui was an outstanding talent whose work stood out for its political impact as well as its artistic power. Her untimely passing evokes painful memories of the death of…
Read Moreby Tom Pollitt | Oct 30, 2021
The new revelations of phone hackings are bad news for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a supposed friend of Britain, and represent new lows in his sordid attempts to co…
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